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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +447031910925 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • uklottery50001@yahoo.co.nz (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • benson_river@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Julie=20Van=20Hans?= <uklottery50001@yahoo.co.nz>
Reply-To: benson_river@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 07:38:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: AWARD NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: uklottery50001@yahoo.co.nz

The National Lottery

PO Box 1010

Liverpool

L70 1NL

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

REF Nº: EGS/2251256003/02

BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD



National U.K Lottery wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail

address ballot lottery international program by Great Britain Your email

account have been picked as a winner of £4,528,000.00


This results is now released your email address attached to Draw 1034 -

30th may 06-Jackpot 04-09-10-19-24-37 Bonus ball 28 participants were

selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users

from company and individual email addresses users.

Be advice to keep your winning information confidential until your

claims has been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of

our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of

this program,For the release of your winning.

All winning must be claimed not later than One Week of Acknowledgment.

After this date all unclaimed funds will be returned to European Union

Treasury as Unclaimed. Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays

and complications please remember to quote your reference number in all

correspondence.

You are therefore advised to give the following information's to your

claims agent listed bellow,


Mr.benson river

Programs & Events Department

Phone: +44703 191 0925

benson_river@yahoo.co.uk


Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email

account users program.


Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Julie Van Hans,

- Julie Van Hans




- Julie Van Hans

Anti-fraud resources:

• What can you do when you receive 419 spam